This solution is an integrated framework of Service Component Architecture (SCA) components designed to speed the development of an SOA. The solution enables rapid SOA development and deployment. As an SCA implementation, the solution components are easily reused, use local calls to reduce overhead, decouple service implementation assembly from the infrastructure and platform details, and works with various messaging constructs.

Covansys' Service Component Architecture (SCA) Framework for SOA integrates with and can leverage leading application development and middleware products including WebSphere, Tivoli, Rational, DB2, Oracle, BEA and Sun.

The Service Component Architecture (SCA) Framework for SOA provides many key capabilities including:

• Business Interface - marker interfaces and life cycle management for business objects and business services
• Business List - manages items of an aggregated business object
• Foundation components that can be configured at runtime and for a specific platform - for in-memory caching, logging and security
• Foundation components that implement J2EE patterns and can be configured at runtime and for a specific platform
• Messaging - framework classes for publishing and subscribing messages using JMS API
• Other Utilities - utility classes such as managing strings, managing dates, Money, Quantity, etc.